NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 20GB VRAM RTX 4000 Ada Generation and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 31% (2175MHz vs 1665MHz)
More VRAM (20GB vs 8GB)
1280 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (130W vs 225W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 4000 Ada Generation
+65%
26.73 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
16.2 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
RTX 4000 Ada Generation
+17%
14340
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
12223
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
RTX 4000 Ada Generation
+12%
6708
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
5941
3DMark Speed Way
RTX 4000 Ada Generation
+18%
3666
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
3097
Graphics Card
Aug 2023
Release Date
Oct 2022
Workstation Ada
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1500 MHz
Base Clock
1410 MHz
2175 MHz
Boost Clock
1665 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
Memory
20GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6X
160bit
Memory Bus
256bit
360.0GB/s
Bandwidth
608.3GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
48
SM Count
38
6144
Shading Units
4864
192
TMUs
152
64
ROPs
80
192
Tensor Cores
152
48
RT Cores
38
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
139.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
133.2 GPixel/s
417.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
253.1 GTexel/s
26.73 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
16.20 TFLOPS
26.73 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
16.20 TFLOPS
417.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
253.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
130W
TDP
225W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
GA104
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GPU Variant
GA104-202-A1
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
5 nm
Process Size
8 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
392 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.9
CUDA
8.6
6.8
Shader Model
6.7
